13 October 1919

Two Addresses
Revolutionary Military Council 5, Smirnov
Turkestan Front Command, Frunze

Directive from the Central Committee: strip all fronts for the benefit of the Southern front. Consider the most urgent measures—for example, emergency mobilization of local workers and peasants to replace your units, which could be sent to the Southern front. The situation there is threatening*.

Telegraph detailed information in cipher.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense, Lenin

First published in 1959

in Lenin Collection XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript